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2010 Spring Central Section Meeting
St. Paul, MN, April 10-11, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1058
Associate secretaries: Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications
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Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, I
Room 213, Humanities Building
Organizers:
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Are large codimension 2 spheres knotted with high probability?
De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
(1058-57-111) -
9:30 a.m.
Knotted 2-spheres in tubes in $Z^4$.
Stu Whittington*, University of Toronto
(1058-57-101) -
10:00 a.m.
Knotting statistics after a local strand passage in self-avoiding polygons on $\mathbb{Z}^3$.
Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
(1058-82-262) -
10:30 a.m.
Mechanics and Energetics of DNA Loops in Complex Nucleoprotein Assemblies.
Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
(1058-92-211) -
11:00 a.m.
Laundry Embedded Surfaces and Protein Folding.
Victor A Nicholson*, Kent State University
(1058-57-243)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, II
Room 213, Humanities Building
Organizers:
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Minimal step number of cubic lattice knots in thin slabs.
Robert G. Scharein*, San Francisco State University
(1058-55-289) -
2:30 p.m.
DNA unknotting, topoisomerases and bacteriophages.
Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University
Robert Scharein, San Francisco State Unviersity
(1058-92-281) -
3:00 p.m.
DNA knotting in bacteriophage spooling like conformations.
Javier Arsuaga*, San Francisco State University
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
(1058-92-221) -
3:30 p.m.
Tangle analysis of protein-DNA complexes.
Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
(1058-92-93) -
4:00 p.m.
On the square writhe of a minimal alternating knot diagram.
Yuanan Diao, UNCC
Claus Ernst*, WKU
Uta Ziegler, WKU
(1058-57-173) -
4:30 p.m.
A Topological Model of Protein-Mediated Localized DNA Transformations.
Dorothy Buck*, Imperial College London
Ken Baker, University of Miami
Andrew Lobb, MSRI and SUNY-Stony Brook
(1058-57-39)
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2:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, III
Room 213, Humanities Building
Organizers:
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Intrinsic symmetries of knots and links.
Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
(1058-57-277) -
9:00 a.m.
On the Ropelength of Alternating Conformations.
R Trapp*, Cal State San Bernardino
S. Sadjadi, SUNY Buffalo
J. Alley, University of Nebraska
C. Mathes, Willamette University
(1058-57-201) -
9:30 a.m.
Lessons from the \texttt{ridgerunner} collection of tight knots.
Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
Ted Ashton, None.
Michael Piatek, University of Washington
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
(1058-53-259) -
10:00 a.m.
Flat Ribbon Links in $\mathbb{R}^2$.
Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
John M Sullivan, TU Berlin
Nancy Wrinkle, Northeastern Illinois University
(1058-57-106) -
10:30 a.m.
Knots and Links as Collections of Annuli with Minimal Modulus.
Robert B. Kusner*, GANG & Math: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(1058-53-127)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, IV
Room 213, Humanities Building
Organizers:
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Transport properties of knotted polymers and DNA.
Marc L. Mansfield*, Dept. of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Biomedical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
(1058-82-213) -
3:00 p.m.
Supercoiled DNA minicircles.
Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine
Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine
Daniel J. Catanese, Jr., Baylor College of Medicine
Donald Schrock, University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Brian Gilbert, Baylor College of Medicine
Nianxi Zhao, Methodist Hospital
Youli Zu, Methodist Hospital
(1058-92-77) -
3:30 p.m.
Physical Knots.
Thomas W Kephart*, Vanderbilt University
(1058-51-44) -
4:00 p.m.
The linking number and writhe of uniform random walks and polygons in confined spaces.
Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
E. Panagiotou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
S. Lambropoulou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
(1058-57-98) -
4:30 p.m.
Using tangling to distinguish polymer packing.
Jonathan K Simon*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Eric J Rawdon, Department of Mathematics, University of St. Thomas
Robert G Scharein, Hypnagogic Software
(1058-82-179) -
5:00 p.m.
Symmetry-breaking in cumulative measures of shapes of polymer models.
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
Eric J. Rawdon*, University of Saint Thomas
Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
Vy Tran, University of Saint Thomas
(1058-57-187)
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2:30 p.m.
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